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Hommage à Jacob Obrecht

Composer
Kurtág György
Original / Hungarian title
Hommage à Jacob Obrecht
Foreign language / English title
Hommage à Jacob Obrecht
Subtitle
For string quartet
Dedication
to János Bali
Year of composition
2005
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
strings: 2 vl., vla., vlc.
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
22 August 2005, Antwerp, Belgium; Keller Quartet: András Keller (vl.), János Pilz (vl.), Zoltan Gál (vla.), Judit Pintér (vlc.)
Publisher / Source
Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest Ⓒ 2005, Z. 14495
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1 Hommage à Jacob Obrecht
Remarks, other info
Composed: 2004-2005

This short string quartet piece was composed at the request of János Bali, in honor of the 500th anniversary of Jacob Obrecht´s death. The movement is a kind of double variation, its first theme is a slow section reminiscent of Renaissance polyphony, and the second is a tiptoeing Schumannian dream scherzo (EMB)